Sexual harassment Mike Pohjola, who is preparing the film Spede: “The information about the rape attempt did not come as a surprise”

According to the screenwriter, one partner once left Pasanen because of a “case like this”.

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Spede Pasasesta screenwriter preparing a narrative film Mike Pohjola says the information about Pasanen’s harassment and rape attempts came as no surprise to him.

Lenita Airisto Pasanen said in a recent memoir that Pasanen tried to rape him in 1990. HS said from the book on Monday.

After that, a writer and visual artist Katariina Souri Pasanen said in a Facebook update that in 1989 or 1990, Pasanen had asked him to negotiate a TV presidency at his home, and during the meeting, Pasanen had begun harassing Souri, who had to flee the scene.

Mike Pohjola has conducted background interviews with several people who have worked with Pasanen for his film screenplay. According to Pohjola, some have reported similar cases to Airisto and Souri, while others have not been aware of them.

“Before Lenita Airisto’s and Katariina Sour’s revelations, these have been second-hand information,” says Pohjola.

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Pohjola says that he conducted the interviews in confidence.

“I know one Pasanen partner who has already passed away terminated the cooperation because of such a case,” he says.

Katariina Souri said on Tuesday on Facebookthat he did not want to tell about Pasanen’s harassment more than 30 years ago.

“I would have had my contempt (it will be now) and got into trouble,” Souri writes.

“When the Metoo movement started, I decided not to talk about Spede because he’s dead. But when Lenita was in the eye of the storm, I felt I had to talk. ”

Mike Pohjola has been preparing a film script on Spede since 2017. He says he has already written the script, but plans to rewrite it due to the revelations that have now come to light.

“I had previously wondered how much of the dark side of Spede gets in the film, and how much is said about how significant a character he was in Finnish entertainment.”

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Pohjola says it has discussed the financing of the film with several parties, but negotiations are ongoing.

In the autumn of 2021, the public was told that Pohjola had also offered its script to Yellow Film & TV, which did not take it, but the company announced that it would begin preparations for its own Spede-themed film.

Yellow Film The Spede movie is based on Tuomas Marjamäen biographies written by him Spede, namely and Uuno is number one – the whole story of Turhapuro.

CEO of Yellow Film Olli Haikka does not want to assess the potential impact of the public revelations on the film.

“We don’t want to comment on unfinished business. I can say that the film dates back to the 1960s, ”says Haikka.

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